As soon as she reached her apartment, she started writing.īefore publishing her first Harry Potter book, she moved to Oporto, Portugal to work as an English teacher in an Academy. She tells she had never been so excited to write than when she had the aforementioned idea. She had the idea of writing Harry Potter when she was traveling in a train from Manchester to London. Later on, she would move to London to work as a researcher and a bilingual secretary for International Amnesty. Once she finished high school, she entered the University of Exeter to study French and Classic Philosophy. She said she loved “The Smiths” and “The Clash.” Rowling had admired her and consequently read all of her books. It turned out that on that time her grandmother gave her a copy of a biography of Jessica Mitford, a communist activist. Rowling moved toTutshill, Glurcestershire. Her first writing was about a bunny who had measles and was visited by her other animal friends.

She wrote fiction stories and told them to her little sister. She has been a writer since she was a little girl. When she was young, she attended St Michael´s primary school. Just before she turned 2 years old, her sister Dianne was born. Her progenitors are Peter James Rowling and Anne Rowling. Rowling was born on July 31 of 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England. Joanne didn´t have a second name, so she borrowed the letter K from Kathleen, her dad´s mother name. Rowling is because her publishing company feared that teenagers wouldn´t buy books written by a woman, so they suggested she used her two initial name letters.

Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter series, one of the most successful book series ever in the history of humankind. Unlike the original Harry Potter series, you’re not going to spoiler yourself by reading one of the Pottermore Presents ebooks before another.Joanne Rowling, also known as J.K. Should they be read in any particular order?

Each book was written to be read in about an hour, with a word count of around 10,000 words. Not very! The Pottermore Presents series is meant to be easily digested.

Pottermore's Anna Rafferty explained: “We read through everything in our archives, took pieces written by Rowling and the Pottermore editorial team, and sewed it all together.” How can I read them?Īll three books are available for £1.99 each from a variety of online retailers, including. The chapters on McGonagall (in Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies) and Slughorn (Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists) are both brand new. Rowling has written chapters that have never been seen before, however.

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